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pho·no·cath·e·ter (fo″no-kathґə-tər) a device similar in appearance to a conventional catheter, with a microphone at the tip; used in recording the sounds of the heart and great vessels.Medical dictionary. 2011.
cardiac catheter-microphone — phonocatheter … Medical dictionary
cardiac catheter-microphone — phonocatheter … Medical dictionary
intracardiac phonocardiography — the graphic registration of sounds produced by action of the heart by means of a phonocatheter passed into one of the heart chambers … Medical dictionary
phonocatheterization — pho·no·cath·e·ter·i·za·tion (fo″no kath″ə tər ĭ zaґshən) the use of a phonocatheter for the detection of sounds produced by the circulatory system … Medical dictionary
intracardiac phonocatheterization — the passage of a phonocatheter into a chamber of the heart, for the detection of sounds as an aid in diagnosis of cardiac defects … Medical dictionary
